New
York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, beloved by millions
of readers around the world for her humor, warmth, and captivating
storytelling in the BIG STONE GAP trilogy and LUCIA, LUCIA, takes
on love, lust, tricky family dynamics, and home decorating in ROCOCO,
the uproarious tale of a small Italian American town poised for a
makeover it never expected.
Bartolomeo di Crespi is the acclaimed
interior decorator of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. To date, Bartolomeo
has hand-selected every chandelier, sconce, and ottoman in OLOF,
so when the renovation of the local church is scheduled, he assumes
there is only one man for the job.
Below: Mario Cantone
recording ROCOCO.
From
the dazzling shores of New Jersey to the legendary fabric houses
of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of fine art in London
to luscious Santa Margherita on the Mediterranean coast of Italy,
Bartolomeo is on a mission to bring talent, sophistication, and
his aesthetic vision to his hometown.
Trigiani's glittering mosaic of small-town
characters sparkles: Bartolomeo's hilarious sister, Toot, is in
desperate need of a postdivorce transformation-thirteen years after
the fact; "The Benefactor," Aurelia Mandelbaum, the richest
woman in New Jersey, has a lust for French interiors and a long-held
hope that Bartolomeo will marry her myopic daughter, Capri; Father
Porporino, the pastor with a secret, does his best to keep a lid
on a simmering scandal; and Eydie Von Gunne, the chic international
designer, steps in and changes the course of Bartolomeo's creative
life, while his confidante, cousin Christina Menecola, awaits rescue
from an inconsolable grief.
Plaster of Paris, polished marble,
and unbridled testosterone arrive in buckets when Bartolomeo recruits
Rufus McSherry, a strapping, handsome artist, and Pedro Allercon,
a stained-glass artisan, to work with him on the church's interior.
Together, the three of them will do more than blow the dust off
the old Fatima frescoes-they will turn the town upside down, challenge
the faithful, and restore hope where there once was none.
Brilliantly funny and as fanciful
as flocked wallpaper, filled with glamorous locales from New Jersey
to Europe, from Sunday Mass to the American Society of Interior
Designers soirée at the Plaza Hotel, ROCOCO is Trigiani's
masterpiece, a classic comedy with a heart of gold leaf.
From the Paperback edition.
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